Detroit Police, 1903

[Ray1936]

Great old photo of the Sergeants of the Detroit Police Department in 1903. Photo after that is a page from the 1903 annual report of the DPD which [[in part) listed the entire roster of the Department. Notice that all their home addresses are listed. The unions would have a shitfit about that today, but those were different times, I guess. No, I'm not in the photo there......I was just a Patrolman in that year. Or close to it, anyway.

[caldogven]

Hi Ray, does the name Tom Picking ring a bell?

[Hardhat]

Great old photo of the Sergeants of the Detroit Police Department in 1903. Photo after that is a page from the 1903 annual report of the DPD which [[in part) listed the entire roster of the Department. Notice that all their home addresses are listed. The unions would have a shitfit about that today, but those were different times, I guess. No, I'm not in the photo there......I was just a Patrolman in that year. Or close to it, anyway.

Cool photo Ray. Those were indeed different times, but if I were a cop today I would certainly want my union to have a shitfit about having my home address published.
As a side note, my dad was a hostage in a bar stickup gone wrong on the Southwest side in the 1960s. One of the bad guys held a gun to his head when the cops showed up. The holdup guys finally agreed to drop their guns. Anyway, my dad kept a News of Free Press newspaper clipping about the incident, and the article included my dad's name and our home address! So I guess if the holdup men wanted to come over later and apologize or something, they knew where to find my dad.

[Ray1936]

Hi Ray, does the name Tom Picking ring a bell?

Sorry to say it does not. But often my grey cells don't click so well.

[cla1945]

Great old photo of the Sergeants of the Detroit Police Department in 1903. Photo after that is a page from the 1903 annual report of the DPD which [[in part) listed the entire roster of the Department. Notice that all their home addresses are listed. The unions would have a shitfit about that today, but those were different times, I guess. No, I'm not in the photo there......I was just a Patrolman in that year. Or close to it, anyway.

Hi Ray,
thats a great old photo and I'll bet the DPD would appreciate a copy of it for the new archive museum they've established in the new headquarters.

[waz]

Yes it's odd how home addresses were so freely shared back when. I have old Tigers programs that list the home addresses of the players, so you could drop in at the Kaline's in Lathrup Village if the mood struck I suppose.

[Ray1936]

Hi Ray,
thats a great old photo and I'll bet the DPD would appreciate a copy of it for the new archive museum they've established in the new headquarters.

I don't have a copy of the report. It's on Google Books on the internet.

[Meddle]

No secret around here where officers, deputies and Troopers live.

They park their fully marked cars in their driveways when they're home.

[Former_Detroiter]

Meddle....Same here in Santa Fe...two of my neighbors keep their marked cars in their driveways. Ditto when I lived in Albuquerque.

[Ray1936]

We were allowed to take our motorcycles home, but they had to be garaged. But no one took marked cars home, ever. They were on the road nearly 24/7.

[Bigb23]

We were allowed to take our motorcycles home, but they had to be garaged. But no one took marked cars home, ever. They were on the road nearly 24/7.

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Thank you Ray, I can only hope to be you in my 80's.

Pic - American Picker Boner edition.

[TheDetroitGenealogist]

Love it! Thank you for sharing